If you had a store. A customer bought some merchandise for 200. And made a deal after payment, that it would be collected after two weeks.

The same day another customer comes, and sees the good you just sold, and asks for it. He says he will give you 1000 for it.

You start thinking. It’s out of stock and will take 4 weeks, even if you order it today.

Would you have sold it to the customer, or would you have committed yourself to the deal you’ve made?

Honestly every rizk we gain, is not from the amount of money, but mostly from the baraqah of everything we have. We should be people of honesty who keeps their promises and are known for transparency and good dealings, no matter if it’s work / business / family or any other matter.

Ya Allah, help us to revive the forgotten sunnah of Hazoor Paak ‎ﷺ in our life. Aamen

Imagine that for every sin you commit, you are increasing in taxes. Taxes that some you will have to pay for in your grave, some taxes you will pay for on judgement day, some taxes you will pay for in jahanum and some in your life. The effect of increase of taxes because of sins, is that your life becomes worse. No matter how much you own, the baraqah, the goodness is gone. There will be more quarrels, more disagreements, difficulties and trouble. Every day as you sin, this debt is increasing. If you are not a muslim, and you’ve lived till your thirties, your debt is probably more than billions. If you’re muslim, and you are practising Islam, you’ve probably forgiven many of these taxes with sincere repentance and tawbah, often. If you don’t pay for the taxes from since in the life (with astagfar and tawbah), Allah, might send more troubles through difficulties, in order to purify you. Usually no one is able to pay all the taxes, because sometimes we sin in a way, we don’t even realize we are sinning. But the amount of taxes will be much less if we repent often, than if you are a progressive muslim or non-muslim. Ya Allah, let us win the struggle of making our sins decrease, so we can reduce our taxes to almost nothing. Aamen.

Money According To Allah

On the other hand, imagine that for every good deed you do every day, the reward is transferred in “jannah” money to your account. When you help other humans. Your “jannah” currency is increasing. If you were practising these good deeds without iman (faith), the good deeds are not tranferred to your “jannah” account, because, you will not be rewarded without iman. A practising muslim’s account of jannah money, is most probably a lot in number, but we must be aware of the fact that, Allah doesn’t count our good deeds, he will weigh them. Allah, will weigh the intention (niyah), the sincerity (ikhlas), the struggle, the quality according to our struggle. So even if the number of deeds are not many, they can still weigh more, because you are correcting your niyah and ikhlas every day. This “jannah” money that is transferred to your account will be paid to you in your grave, on judgement day, in jannah, and in your life. Perhaps Allah will give you relief, baraqah, hidden blessings, a misfortune that makes you practice your deen more etc. A life time of thirty years, according to the purity of your practice, this account can be so full of money, that you can decide between which jannah you want to enter. You can also gift some of this currency to those who have passed away, in order to raise their ranks. Or motivate others to do good and share in the richness of increasing your jannah, currency, while also spreading much goodness. Ya Allah, make us like those muslims who always increases in jannah currency, that weighs the most, in reward. Aamen.

What Is Left In The Final Account

But wait. Before this, we must withdraw the debt from the jannah money and see how much is left. No matter how much we pray or the good we practice, we will never be able to repay what Allah has done for us. Hazoor Paak ‎ﷺ has said, every person who will be admitted to paradise, has achieved that because of Allah’s mercy and not his/her deeds. The great matter here is, Allah is the most Just, and he has saved 99 Mercies of His (Allah) for the day of judgement. 1 mercy that He (Allah) sent to the world, is the reason why mothers love their children. And we know Allah loves us more than 70 mothers. We can’t imagine the amount of mercy and love Allah has for us. But this gives a believer much hope for a good end. Ya Allah, grant us a good end with the believers who has the highest ranks in both worlds. Aamen

We Decide The Increase Or The Decrease

When we find a good way of increasing our jannah currency, and we share the idea with others. Every person that follows the new idea of earning reward, the jannah currency of them, will automatically get transferred to the first person who shared it, without it decreasing the reward of those who practice it. In other words, if people follow the good you say and do, their reward is also your reward. Without it decreasing the reward of the follower. The backside of the medal is, if we find a new way of sinning, and we tell others, and they commit the sin, the taxes from sins that each follows is transferred to the account of the first person who introduced it. This is the difference between a good trend-setter and a bad trend-setter. They will share the reward or the sin of the trend they have set. That’s why it’s so important to not announce your sins. To prevent others from also following it, and prevent the sin from becoming “normal”. Allah forgives our sins until we tell others. So within our means, we must repent and prevent ourself from telling our sins to others.

Mercy And Love Without Limit

So in the final reckoning, we all are sinners, and the best of sinners are those who make sincere repentance and sincere tawbah every day, and increase in good deeds, because good deeds wipes out bad deeds. Allah loves the repentant sinner more than those who become arrogant because of the good they have done. If it wasn’t for Allah giving us the means and idea’s of doing good, we wouldn’t have been able to do it. The good we do, is inspired by Him (Allah). So there is no place for thinking good of ourself. He could have given that gift to someone else. Therefore when he (Allah) inspired us we must try to win the struggle of practising gratitude. Aamen. The most beautiful mercy Allah has towards his believer is when He wipes out all bad deeds because of tawbah. So if a non-muslim accept islam in his twenties, thirties or forties, he is forgiven the sins of his/her time of jahiliyah (ignorance), when he had not yet accepted faith (iman). Allah forgives our taxes when we make sincere repentance and tawbah. So if we want to prosper in both worlds, we must keep correcting ourself, and we will prosper in both worlds. Ya Allah, grant us to win the struggle of doing sincere repentance and tawbah every day. Aamen. Ya Allah, grant us to win the struggle of perfecting our niyah and ikhlas, our struggle for Your (Allah’s) sake, and the quality of every deed. Aamen. Ya Allah, forgive us. Accept our tawbah for every sin. Purify our heart and our soul. Aamen. Ya Allah, heal us from all our health afflictions for all time, so we can grow in our qualities and abilities, and become the most succesful “muttaqi of imam” of our time. Aamen. Ya Allah, grant us an obedient and guided life, a good akhirah and a good eternal life with Your (Allah’s) most loved believers. Aamen

Many people say that troubles come because of money or richness. That is not exactly correct. Although, with money, we will have a longer hisab on judgement day, and the spending will be questioned throrougly, but it’s not all bad.

Spend In The Way Of Allah

If it wasn’t for the converting of rich people to Islam, we wouldn’t have been able to do all the great work Islam did. We wouldn’t afford it. When these new muslims heard about the reward for helping people in need, and giving away money for the sake of Allah, they did not hesitate to eagerly increase the reward.

The Root Of The Problem Is Not Money

When we say that money and richness is the way to evil, that is incorrect. It is the intention and taqwa that is important. If we are rich and we have good intentions, we will spend on good matters. If we have godfear with the good niyah, we will also protect our earnings from being spent on wrong matters.

The Purity Of Deeds Will Be Weighed

A person with bad intentions and less godfear, will spend his wages on wrong matters, earning the sinful repercussions. But even if the same man did not have money, but still he had bad intentions and no godfear, and he wished for money to spend it on bad matters, he will still earn the sins, even if he did not commit them. Since Allah rewards according to the purity of good intention, he also punishes according to the wretchedness of bad intentions.

Ask For Increase In Sustenance

So ask for money and sustainable living. But most of all ask for godfear (taqwa) and pure and good intentions. Because even if you don’t have the money, you would wish for it to spend it on good matters, in Allah’s way. So Allah, will reward you for it, weighing the purity of your intentions. So next time, don’t curse the means / the resources, ask Allah, to guide each and every to spend their resources on something that will benefit their life and hereafter, and ask Allah to protect each and every from spending their money on anything that can harm them in both worlds. Ya Allah, grant us good aala niyah and taqwa and much richness, so we can spend privately and openly on matters that are important for You and those You love. So we can increase our reward and be united joyfullly with those You love under Your Throne, rejoicing together in good state. Aameen

Most people talk bad about women that wear hijab. Without lifting an eyebrow about women in their life, who not only doesn`t wear hijab, but also pluck eyebrows and wear perfume. These women, girls are not looked by men with good intentions.

Most people talk bad about women that avoid mix gatherings or places where there is played music. Without lifting an eyebrow about the people who think that music uplifts them. Most of who seek places where they easily can interact with the other gender. This is most people idea of having fun.

Most people backbite women who avoid certain arrangements and tv-channels even if they are for women only. While they don`t mind that many of the places, even at islamic programs, there is a lot of noise and most people are backbiting and many muslims are making fun of others.

Most people talk bad about people who care about what they eat, every ingredients so that they don`t eat anything that is not allowed. They can use a lot of time finding the right restaurant or checking the ingredients in all foods. Or questioning the employee about this. While they care little of those who eat all kinds of meat, and all kinds of food, and never dare to question for a second time if the food actually is halal. Disregarding, caring little for that the food they eat has an impact on their behaviour.

Most people think those who are always speaking the truth, are foolish, because it gets them into trouble. While they don`t care for the fact that the angels doesn`t like to company people who lies.

Most people make fun of many sunnah`s of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh. The sad part is that most of them doesn`t know that making fun of any parts of Islam, can take you/ and your children, further away from it. How can your claim of loving the prophet pbuh be true, while you make fun of his simple life-style.

Most people doesn`t like paying much money, when it comes to learning the deen, attending online courses or buying books. While they can utilize many thousands in buying a new car/ house/ vacation just to impress their friends.

Most people doesn`t get impressed by conduct/ knowledge/ hikmah/ in deen or people who takes practicing Islam seriously. They get impressed by bank-balance, expensive cars, big houses, mobile phones and clothing from expensive brands. Non of which will help them attain jannah.

Instead of looking with disgust at people who are trying to be more practicing, we should actually give these people a break. Today many people say that people force other muslims to practice Islam. Where? As I see it, the community, so-called muslims by name, are making it difficult for practicing muslims, to practice Islam, as it came. Instead of pointing fingers at people you don`t know. Try to understand certain people by what they are avoiding. Maybe we can understand them more after that.

In some countries eating with your hands is seen as something good and normal. In other societies it is seen as abnormal to eat without cutlery. Societies and countries have made their written and un-written rules about what they see as normal. Something that is common in some societies is seen as backwards or illegal in other societies.

In many countries smoking cigarettes is seen as normal.

In fact if people attend a gathering and they don`t smoke or drink in that gathering, they are seen as backwards or old-fashioned. Even though we all know that smoking is hazardous to our health. It`s even done major campaigns to help people get motivated to stop. Drinking is also seen as a norm. You can`t have fun without it. The people who attend a party and doesn`t drink, do not know how to have fun. Though the police often talk about drunk teenagers being in a really bad condition after going home from a party. Drinking leads to many bad things, nothing good comes from it. Even though drinking is seen as normal, and anyone who doesn`t drink is seen as abnormal.

In some countries it seen as normal to have children outside of marriage.

Though we know that most children that grow up with one parent, doesn`t get the proper up-bringing a couple can give. Though it is seen as normal, even if it leads to people with many problems in the society. It is not good for a child to not have both parents with them. Or to have to have a father or a mother. A father can never take the whole role of a mother and the mother can never take the whole role of a father in a child’s life. The father and the mother complete each other and give their children the love, nurture, care and provide for them better when they have each other. Therefore same-gender parents are not good for the children. Even though in some countries it is seen as normal. Again the norm of the society makes something that is bad for the children, allowed. If the child grows up without knowing who their parent is, that is also detrimental for those individuals.

We know that weapons and knives can harm

We know that it is not good for all people to have weapons. We know that people can get killed and injured. Even when it can be an accident. We know out of numbers and incidents that in America there are many deaths because it is easy to buy weapons. Many people harm other because of it. It is not good for the society. Using weapons and showing off with them, is seen as cool and normal. Though we know it can take a life. We say we don`t want more wars, but many countries are earning lots of millions because they are selling weapons to other countries. This is seen as normal. I know your going to mis-use the weapons I`m selling you, but just because I need to earn that money, I don`t “mind” that you take as many lives as you want with it? Is this normal for you? We are talking authorities here. Not ordinary people. Authorities that maybe sitting in some peace congregation and promoting peace for all. But are they really, really working for it or against it? Being biased is seen as normal. That is not normal to me. These weapons take lives. A life in Pakistan or Syria is just as much worth as a life in Britain, Russia or America. When we are making it easy for other to kill other people, we are not working for the peace we were promoting in the congregation of UN or work for betterment for children or mothers like UNICEF promotes.

The average people has talked about someone in their absence

I guess over 70% of people backbite others. It is seen as normal in most societies today. If you are of those people whom dislike it, you would probably avoid social gatherings. Most socializing involves talking behind some people. If you don`t you are seen as a bore, whom doesn`t have anything to entertain with. When in fact a person whom is talking about others life, is indirect saying that my life is so boring, that I need to tell you about another person so that you would want to talk with me. The best people are those who talk about ideas and have healthy discussions that does not involving in talking bad about other people. Talks that are meaningful and bring out good, motivates and inspires.

It is not normal until it is good for you

We know that smoking, drinking, buying weapon, mixing without marriage, backbiting is bad for us. If the society and its people set a norm that is bad for the people, why is it seen as normal, when it makes ab-normal people. This has everything to do with humanity and wanting what is best for each other. We don`t need to be christian, jew, hindu, atheist or a muslim to know that all of these matters are harmful for our well-being. I can`t understand the fact that the community can legalize anything that is harming its citizens. It is not ok. And it is not normal. We need to define what is good, as normal. Don`t let people with wrong values decide what normal is to you, just because a lot of people are indulging in it. Right is right even if only one person is doing it. Wrong is wrong even if the whole community has “legalized” it. We want to normalize as norms, what is good for our hearts, souls and bodies to build healthy people and good communities for muslims and non-muslims where we live.

A double standard of the muslim community I wanted to talk about in this post is about marriage. This is something each and every will go through in their life, and there are several things about this topic that makes one think whether our conduct in this regards is correct or not.

Since parents are born in another time then their children, they often have another thought about their ideal for their children’s marriage. Here it is very important that before getting into the process of finding a suitable match, they talk together and agree about what the child wants. The reason is that it is not the parent that is getting married. It is the child. That persons preferences is the most important. Often parents choose spouses for their children without even asking them properly, which later result in breakage of the bond. Things like manners and their practice of Islam should be weighed heavier than looks, income etc.

What is very common in the muslim community is that the parents think that if they marry their daughter to a rich person, she would be happy for the rest of her life. That is not correct. As your daughter is not married to the money her husband owns, but to him. Rizk is in the hands of Allah. He will test us in loss of wealth, hunger etc. A rich person today can lose his job tomorrow just like a person without a great income can get a great job-offer the very next month after marriage. It is not in our hands, it is merely in the hands of Allah.

Often parents don`t want their children to marry earlier than finishing their degrees at the university or getting a decent job. After all how will they be able to have enough money to be able to support another spouse. And what about their future? So the child want to get marry, and is asking for the parents consent, and they are turning him down. As they are opening his eyes to the world of darkness, because when a person gets into an age of adolescent, their desires can come in their way. And they can be misguided by the free environment we have in the West and now also back in our country. These thing often result in the guy and the girl, having relations before their parents let them marry someone. To parents: are they mature old enough for these relations but not for marriage? Have you given them proper islamic education as to how they will keep themselves away from haram stuff.

When parents approve a spouse after a long process they have to plan a big and fancy wedding. So that could take years to plan and thousands to earn. Meanwhile , the now engaged couple, are having a very openly environment where they meet, and everyone is ok with that. The parents are actually opening the gate of Jahannum to them. First of all, the sunnah of marriage is simpleness. As simple as it could be. Our Prophet has married sahabis with one single date, fruit. Here we are talking about lakhs and lakhs and fancy dressing, three coarse meal and of course a pre- and after partying, mix gender wise. No wonder the baraakah of marriage are long gone before the couple gets married and result in breakage, when they use more time in planning the marriage then in the marriage itself.

Another double standard of the muslim community is the age of the wife to be. She has to be young, and a virgin. Yes, I know that our Prophet pbuh did say to the sahaba`s that they should marry young, fertile virgins, because he wants a large amount of people in his Ummah on the judgement day. But have we forgotten that he married only one virgin, and she was not able to get any child? He married a lot of women that had been previously married, with kids for example his pbuh`s first wife, khadijah. So most of the men are hurrying trying to find a suitable young, virgin girl, while the widows and single parents are having difficulties getting married because the society doesn`t want them anywhere. A few people even say that they can`t marry after becoming a widow, but the sunnah tells otherwise. We also have a high divorce-rate in the society, which means there are an increasing number of these women. How can we change the thought of young men to choose a spouse that can make them become as close as their to fingers in Jannah with the Prophet pbuh, by marrying a widow, or divorced with children. By that they will become father of orphans and making sure that they will get supported. All the choice these women have is between earning money and raising their children. The society is not making their life easy at all.

Yet we have another issue about marriages. Often we see people are very selfish in not helping people to get married. They want themselves to be first and get the best one. Whether other women of the Ummah will get a spouse is not their tension. Often people know about some that are single and looking for a spouse, but they will not help them, to tie the knot, just because it is not their responsibility. Often if two people like each other and wants to get married, people will put hurdles in their way, often out of jealousy, because they are a great match. The third point is the converts. Who will help them in getting married. They often don`t know enough people and don`t have references of being a muslim as long as someone born muslim, that might be more progressive than them, after they accepted the rules of Islam, when they converted.

Yet a very important and less discussed aspect about marriage is maturity. Often the people whom are getting into this new relation don`t know the ABC of marriage. What it means to be a husband / wife in Islam. What is the wifes /husbands rights and their duties towards each other. Purity. Children. etc. If they are not familiar with this, the marriage could end disastrous. Often we see that a few guys get married because their parents insist in it, and because they didn`t have the son`s consent he does not treat his wife in a good manner. Consent of those whom are getting married and their maturity should be valued. If a person is bad before marriage, simply marrying a girl from abroad will not make him better. If you as a parent can`t change him, how can you expect a girl whom hardly know him, to change him. Marriage is a lot of responsibility and one should be ready to carry it`s weight.

Both the parents and the children need to talk together and look for each others consent. If people don`t help the women in the community to get married and making their life easier, they are far away of the sunnah of our Prophet pbuh. It is important that we as an Ummah try to make people`s life more easy and not difficult. We have a responsibility to make the best of what we can do. If every family spend less on their marriage and give away sadqah to those who can`t afford one, the barakah of their marriage will be increased. May Allah help us help others. ❤ ❤ Ameen summa ameen.

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